We all live in a state of quantum flux.
You don’t know whether you’re male or female, unless you look into the mirror, or somebody observes you?
Edit: That checks out, actually. I forget my gender all the time that I’m not thinking about it.
Pretty basic math and semantic error here by excluding the original reason “binary” meant 2 types.
But according to the joke it still does represent two types: Binary and nonbinary. Which itself is a binary set of choices, albeit a different one.
There is indeed inherent dichotomy in the post
Yeah, of course it does. In the strictest interpretation devoid of context.
The two genders: Binary and Non-binary.
There are non-binary people who still believe genders can suit others, and even be played with as forms of role play …and there are also examples of null states, such as nullos and asexuals…
…so non-binary doesn’t necessarily make a new binary if they still believe gender is fine for others, or as a role play.
A better way to think about it might be as a gender spectrum or quadratic continuum of varied characteristics and overlapping body forms and sexual preferences/behaviour.
…queer.
Asexuality isn’t a gender. We’re just not attracted to people of any gender. Our gender identity is separate.
To be fair, it calls then categories, not genders
That’d effectively be a nested binary system
Male, Female, and a Secret Third Thing
Neuchacho
More like Man, Woman and 60 plus different other categories even good sports in the first two categories don’t tend to be bothered to learn about.
It’s not that it’s secret it’s that if you don’t ask for specifics we assume you don’t care, don’t know there are specifics or you really just don’t want to know.
Us Enbyfolk respecting that you probably don’t need to be burdened with actual specifics or interpreting that knowledge as being additional social pressure is us being polite.
Ah, a comment to test mods’ susceptibility
actually, technically it would be a trinary system, if we’re looking at it like a spectrum, and if we’re looking at it like a spectrum, i think it’s funnier to conceive of it like a circle. Or to get the point across, like those political alignment charts.
i think it’s funnier to conceive of it like a circle.
Unfortunately, conception is only possible when combining certain parts of that circle.
it can only make a full circle, when all parts are put together, therefore problem solved.
All they did was to add another bit. From 1 to 10
binary: {0,1}, non-binary: [0,1]
OP: {binary, non-binary}
My binary system doesn’t enforce gender roles so everyone fits within it
Genders in the Dutch language: common and neuter
Genders in the Russian language: “actually, we are families”
“We don’t need articles, but we have a fuck ton of grammatical genders”
Says the same country that also fears non-binary gender identities, that’s actually kinda ironic
The gender is there but I said it so fast you can’t tell the difference anyway so let’s just call it a short form
-russian
In Russia; you don’t gender yourself, Russian genders you.
Those are grammatical genders, which are a different thing.
Right
They really should be called genres or noun class as outside of Europe they really aren’t tied to gender and can have way more different cases than just two or three.
We’ve actually got 3 genders, but outside Flanders, people don’t seem to know the distinction anymore. The darn Dutch ruined Dutch!
I had no idea this was another thing Flanders did differently than the Netherlands (and pretty much every other “Netherlandophone” area)
It’s really handy when you’re learning German as their gender tends to be the same (het/een huis -> das Haus; de/nen hond -> der Hund; de/een kat(te) -> die Katze).
“You Dutch sure are a contentious people”
Stupid sexy Flanders
One day aliens are going to meet us and wonder what happened in our evolution that made us biased towards seeing every noun in groups of two, except for rules of nouns which are in groups of three.
I need examples or I don’t understand.
Male-female, darkness-light, plant-animal, ying-yang, mind-body, earth-heaven, spiritual-physical, prime-composite, even-odd
3 laws of motion, thermo, robotics, of dielect, and Trinity assignment.
Something strange about us that it is easier to think of opposites but following 3 rules.
plant-animal
I identify as a mushroom
Most of these groups are simply “A” and “Everything not A”. Either a number is odd or it is even. Either a place is lit up or it is dark.
That being said there are also some cases in there where there is more than just two categories (like male-female or plant-animal) but we, for the most part, only think about the most important / biggest ones.
All of this probably comes down to the fact that in order to make sense of the world or brain constantly tries to put things into categories to quickly assess what something is or isn’t. And it makes sense that the easiest way to categorize things is by just going “Is this A or B”?
That’s a fun thing to point out. The rules of 3 especially so, but it’s also using specific examples and lacking to see the complexity of of our ability to communicate and all the other words we have.
Androgynous, tomboy, femboy / twilight, murky, dim / fungus / Ying -Yang is cheating / spirit, form, will / limbo, underworld, cosmos, time / etc…
And even in rules, in Buddhism you have the 8 fold path, the 10 commandments, heck the 613 laws of God in Judaism.
Just don’t be going all “The Number 23” on us just cause it’s easy to find solution confirming biases in common numbers.
Sure there are counter examples. As for Buddhism he had the three great truths: no soul, no plan, everything dies.
It’s always hilarious and frustrating when people who don’t understand a topic try to disprove it. This is the same energy as flat earthers pointing to the horizon and going “See!?!” or anti-vaxxers pointing out people who still get sick.
Anyone who thinks this logic is compelling should actually crack a book. I’d recommend Judith butlers gender trouble, but this sort of meme is peak dunning kruger. Literally too ignorant of a topic to actually argue against it.
Wow you are stupid, aren’t you? It’s called a joke and not a debate.
I think it reads like a joke made by a nonbinary person
It’s always hilarious when people take jokes as if they’re literal
Sir, this is a shitpost.
When I see that kind of argument, I think of tri-state logic gates.
Those gates can be in 3 states High, Low, and Hi-Z.
If we look at non-binary people from that angle they must be in the Hi-Z state.
What if I’m naan binary (preferably garlic)?
when peshwari exists?
I’m peshwari-curious.
No…Keema is the right choice
